![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
Pupils, staff, families and friends came together on New Field after school on April 21 for Osfest – a fundraising afternoon organised by students in Osmond House.
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
Among the activities and attractions were bouncy castles, a coconut shy, sports challenges, ‘sponge the teacher’, sponsored leg waxing, face painting, music, an ice cream van and a variety of stalls and raffles.
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
All funds raised were in aid of Osmond House’s chosen charity of the year, Tom’s Trust.
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
Housemaster Paul Lott said: “I am so proud of the way all the boys in the house pulled together to put on a summer fair that entertained hundreds of people.
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
“I am thankful for the generosity of pupils, parents and the wider school community in helping to raise such a large sum of money for such a worthwhile local cause.”
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
Tom’s Trust was set up in 2011 in memory of Tom Whiteley, a local boy who died of a brain tumour in November 2010, just seven months after being diagnosed with a malignant medulloblastoma brain tumour. Tom was aged just nine.
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
The trust’s aim is to raise money to fund paediatric oncology clinical psychologists at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge to help treat children with brain tumours, and support their families.
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
The trust also aims to identify and work with a second UK hospital providing the clinical psychology provision within a second rehabilitation service, and to raise awareness of children with brain tumours in the UK.
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
To find out more about Tom’s Trust, including how you can support the charity, visit www.tomstrust.org.uk
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
![Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.]( "Ely Standard: Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours.")
Osfest, an annual fundraising event at King’s Ely, has raised more than £1,2000 for Tom’s Trust - a charity which helps support children and young people with brain tumours. (Image: Archant)
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